South Africa's infrastructure
South Africa has world-class infrastructure - including a modern transport network, low-cost and widely available energy, and sophisticated telecommunications facilities.
And these are all in line for significant upgrade and expansion between now and 2010, when South Africa hosts the Football World Cup.
The government has identified massive infrastructure projects as key to boosting the country's economic growth rate and creating employment, and committed billions of rands to getting the investment ball rolling.
Energy supply
State company Eskom is among the lowest-cost electricity suppliers in the world. It ranks in the top 10 internationally for size and sales, supplying around 95% of South Africa's energy requirements and two-thirds of Africa's.
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Telecommunications
It should come as no surprise that the country which invented touchtone dialling offers world-class telecommunications. Telecommunications is the fastest growing sector of SA's economy, with investment exceeding R60-billion between 1994 and 2004 - and showing no signs of slowing.
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Transport network
South Africa has the transport infrastructure of a fully developed country. The roads are world-class. The air and rail network are the largest on the continent. And the country's ports provide a natural stopover for shipping to and from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and both coasts of Africa.
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